When businesses aren’t successful, they have a limited amount of time to turn things around. Continued failure means the business needs to wrap up and fold, or continue to go into debt until creditors end the operation. Hopefully, your business isn’t that far gone yet. If it’s looking like that might be the case, it’s time to change up your marketing strategy. Read on for a few ideas how you can make that happen.

Be Exciting

Boring, dry marketing will catch nobody’s eye. Even if your marketing is an informative and accurate depiction of what your business does, if it’s boring it won’t take you anywhere. You need to have an energetic campaign. It needs to be sharp and to the point. You have a very limited amount of time for your marketing to work on people. If they don’t get the full idea of the marketing by the time their patience wears out, they won’t pay attention at all.

Digital Marketing

By employing digital marketing like SEO services, you can market in a brand new way. Digital marketing is currently poised to be the next big thing in advertising. It can be anywhere on the internet and take almost any form. With digital marketing like SEO, you can directly increase your chances of customers coming to you directly. SEO changes how a search engine views your business website and the search terms you want to be found by. That’s why SEO stands for search engine optimisation.

Be Controversial

This could be risky. A controversial marketing campaign can go either way. It can net you a lot of press coverage and therefore eyes on your business. It can also draw a lot of negative attention, though, and this attention can be sustained and damaging. Some campaigns that were designed to be controversial fell flat on their faces. Others ended up being controversial by mistake. If you’ve run out of ideas, this could be a last ditch attempt at making your marketing effective.

Go Viral

Attempting to go viral is hard. It relies almost entirely on the general public to pick up what will become viral or not. Regardless of quality and production values, it seems anything has the potential to go viral. Due to the almost random nature of what goes viral and what doesn’t, you may have to try a few times to get it to catch on. Instead of a single attempt, base a whole marketing campaign around attempting to go viral. One might just manage it and bring exposure to the business. One hit is all you need.

Use Multimedia

Don’t expect to hit it big with just one type of marketing. A successful leafleting campaign is a drop in the ocean compared to a television advert in terms of exposure. Of course, you need to use the medium that suits your budget. Television adverts are out of the remit of most medium and small businesses. Instead, try local radio or online content sponsorships.

Marketing can be the biggest weapon you have in the fight back against business failure. Just make sure you use it correctly.